TITLE: Tatooine POD RACE
NAME: H. E. Day (Howard Earl)
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: PovRayGuy@aol.com
TOPIC: Gadgets and Odd Devices
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: tatooine.mpg
ZIPFILE: tatooine.zip
RENDERER USED: 

    Pov Ray 3.1 (Superpatched)

TOOLS USED: 

    GUM

RENDER TIME: 
    48 hours



HARDWARE USED: 

    Pentium 200Mhz MMX 32MB RAM


ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 


        This is my version of a scene in the new STAR WARS movie.  If you've 
seen the trailer you know what I mean. If not, this race happens on Tatooine,
 a desert planet.  The racers are two big rockets held together by some sort 
of energy, with a control-pod being pulled along chariot-style.
        Hopefully, this will tide you over till the movie comes out... 
        
        Anyway, this is the first IRTC animation that I know of that uses a 
motion blur created completely in Pov-Ray.  Anyone is welcome to use this 
file, as long as they give me credit where credit is due, as I created it.  
The file that did this is in the .zip file (motionblur.pov).  It will motion
blur any animation exported to sequencial *.tga files.  You just declare the
prefix (such as C:\images\anim  - this will load c:\images\anim001.tga, 
c:\images\anim002.tga, etc.) and the number of frames.  The file uses the 
average pattern, putting 3 sequencial frames together.  You can use any 
number of frames, but in this  animation I used a 3:1 (600 normal frames, 200
final) ratio.


HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED:

I used the superpatch splines for the paths of the speeders and camera.  I 
had to write my own code to make them align and turn with the path, however.
The motion blur you already know about.  The terrain was created in 
Photoshop 5, and edited in Pov-Ray.  The Pods were made in GUM, which is 
available on the povray ftp site under modellers.  The "Tatooine" text in the
lower-left corner and the dust blowing by was rendered at the same time as 
the motion blur. The Lens-flares at the end of the flic were created with 
Nathan Kopp's Lens-Flare Plugin version 5.


Hope you enjoy this one!

H.E. Day

Note: My younger brother helped some on the designs of the speeders.  
He just wanted you to know.

